Snell Type C mkV GORGEOUS LIGHT OAK FLOORSTANDER SPEAKERS!

Up for sale is a PAIR OF AUDIOPHILE SNELL ACOUSTICS C/V FLOOR STANDING SPEAKERS! COLOR IS LIGHT OAK, BUT LOOKS LIKE LIGHT CHERRY. These are in NICE CONDITION AND PERFECT WORKING ORDER! There are a few marks/nicks/scratches etc from normal use. Any circles/shadows etc in pictures are from camera flash.
RETAIL IS $2500.00!

The new C/V is a totally different speaker from the older C/IV. While both are moderately tall floorstanding models—the C/V is about 47" high with the supplied spikes installed—the C/V has two 8" vented woofers as opposed the C/IV's single 10" vented driver; while the older speaker had one 5" midrange, the C/V has two such drivers, mounted in what Snell calls an "MTM array" (basically, just the common midrange/tweeter/midrange samwich thang) above and below the 1" pure-titanium tweeter. This tweeter is the same driver used in Snell's Type B minor, reviewed by Larry Greenhill in April '94 (Vol.17 No.4, p.166). Both the midrange and woofer drivers are plastic-coned units, and all of the drivers are hard-wired to the crossover and speaker binding posts with heavy-gauge Monster Cable hookup wire. The woofers are driven in parallel, crossed-over to the midranges at 300Hz; the midranges, also driven in parallel, hand things over to the centrally mounted tweeter at 2.8kHz. All slopes are 18dB/octave "Butterworth" types. To reduce cabinet-edge diffraction and smooth the speaker's response through the midrange and treble, a sheet of thick, sound-absorbing felt is glued to the C/V face surrounding the mid/tweet/mid samwich.

The rear of the C/V is where you find not only the woofer port's opening 4" down from the top of the cabinet, but the second, rear-firing 1" dome tweeter. A common feature of the Snell line, this tweeter only comes into play in the highest two octaves, and is designed to add a sense of "air" and "life" in the highs by spraying HF energy at the wall behind the speakers and filling-in the overall power response in the highs, where all conventional dynamic speakers narrow their dispersion. Of course, this rear-firing tweeter can also make for a more "soft-focus" character in the highs, as it basically increases the ratio of reflected HF energy bouncing off your room's walls before it reaches your ears, to direct sound from the speaker's front tweeter. If you're like me and don't like this effect, you can switch off this second tweeter via a switch on the rear panel, next to the binding posts.

The binding posts are good-quality, gold-plated jobs, with round, metal thumb-knurl nuts rather than the usual plastic hex-heads. Two pairs of posts are provided per C/V to allow for bi-wiring and passive bi-amping, with gold-plated jumpers included so you can hook these guys up with a single run of cable. Also on the rear panel are the in-line fuse that's wired in series with both tweeters, the aforementioned switch for the rear-firing tweeter, and a wire wound level control to adjust the main tweeter's level. Snell says that the C/V's response is flattest when the tweeter level control is set at 12:00.

Description: Three-way floorstanding vented loudspeaker. Drivers: two 8" woofers, two 5" midranges, one 1" titanium-dome tweeter, one switchable rear-firing 1" tweeter. Crossover frequencies: 300Hz, 2.8kHz. Recommended amplifier power: 50–250W. Rated sensitivity: 90dB/W/m in anechoic half-space. Impedance: 8 ohms nominal, 5 ohms minimum.
Dimensions: 46.75" H by 10.5" W by 17.75" D. Weight: 230 lbs/pair.
Finishes available: oak, dark oak, walnut, high-gloss black real-wood veneers.
Serial numbers of speakers reviewed: 1537/1538.
Price: $2499/pair (1994); no longer available (2007)

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